The John-Henry Westen Show - March 25, 2019


Episode 1： Raising concerns about Pope Francis is hard, but essential. Here's why...

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John-Henry Westen
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Pope St. Peter Pope Francis John Paul II Bishop Schneider Athanasius Schneider Gentile Christians Melchior Cano Benedict
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In this episode, we begin a series laying out the hard evidence for our concerns with Pope Francis. We also discuss the importance of correcting the Pope publicly when necessary, and why Catholics need to do so in order to protect their own credibility.

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00:00:00.000 Hello, and welcome to the John Henry Weston Show.
00:00:08.920 This will be a weekly show to run every Tuesday, in which I will offer commentary on the most
00:00:13.580 important news developments in the Church and culture.
00:00:16.460 We are beginning with a series laying out the hard evidence for our concerns with Pope
00:00:20.820 Francis.
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00:00:42.120 May God bless you.
00:00:43.080 Hi, I'm John Henry Weston, co-founder and editor-in-chief of LifeSite News.
00:01:00.460 For the past six years, LifeSite has been experiencing many difficulties in our reporting on what's
00:01:06.580 going on in Rome.
00:01:07.340 For some 22 years now, we've reported on the Vatican, and especially the statements
00:01:12.280 of the popes, focusing mostly on life and family.
00:01:15.740 With John Paul II and Pope Benedict, it was relatively easy.
00:01:19.560 Since they would say so many pro-life and pro-family things, it was a joy to report.
00:01:24.400 It was a real encouragement, too, for pro-life leaders around the world to hear the words
00:01:29.340 of the popes who it seemed really had your back, even when sometimes your local bishops
00:01:34.040 did not.
00:01:34.540 But things changed with the election of Pope Francis.
00:01:38.720 After a year of trying to explain away his confusing statements, and sometimes statements
00:01:43.140 that went directly against his two predecessors, we knew at LifeSite we had to just report straight
00:01:49.060 what was happening, and let people know what was going on.
00:01:52.900 Faithful Catholics need to understand the severity of the situation so that they can pray like
00:01:58.460 never before for the crisis in the Church, pray and fast, and take action.
00:02:04.540 When we started to do this, however, we noticed that some of our most loyal followers, in
00:02:09.380 fact, some of my own friends and family, started to question what we were doing.
00:02:14.720 As if after so many years of faithful, truthful reporting, we were starting to make things
00:02:19.860 up, or even create things out of thin air.
00:02:23.340 I have to tell you how distressing it was, and still is.
00:02:26.660 I have often wished that, with some of my friends and family, I could sit down with them and
00:02:32.340 show them the evidence first-hand.
00:02:33.840 And that was actually the genesis of the video series that I'm about to launch tomorrow.
00:02:40.320 The evidence for our concerns with Pope Francis speaks for itself.
00:02:44.840 Most of his controversial statements are made in front of cameras, and so we've pulled the
00:02:49.200 footage, and translated it, and pulled the Vatican's own transcripts of them, so we can
00:02:54.200 definitively show what has happened.
00:02:56.180 It is totally understandable that the faithful want to show allegiance to the Pope, and in
00:03:02.740 this day and age of fake news in the mainstream media, mistrusting a news agency, well, that's
00:03:07.520 nothing new either.
00:03:08.800 But we pray that the evidence speaks for itself.
00:03:12.280 Catholics believe that the Pope is infallible, but not with everything he says or does.
00:03:18.240 Only in specific cases where he is explicitly defining doctrine pertaining to the faith and
00:03:24.780 morals.
00:03:25.800 And with regard to confronting the Pope, even publicly, we have the example of that right
00:03:31.460 from the beginning of the Church, the first Pope, St. Peter.
00:03:35.080 Remember the account from Galatians 2 when St. Paul confronted Pope St. Peter over Peter's
00:03:40.900 refusal to eat with uncircumcised Gentile Christians, and he would only eat with Jewish Christians? 0.98
00:03:46.460 St. Paul recounts that he opposed Pope St. Peter to the faith, because he was in the
00:03:53.820 wrong, and St. Paul also notes that he did so publicly.
00:03:58.280 The Church's greatest doctor of the faith has also commented on the need to carry on with
00:04:03.720 this tradition of correcting the Pope when needed.
00:04:06.700 St. Thomas Aquinas said, and I quote,
00:04:10.140 If the faith were endangered, a subject ought to rebuke his prelate even publicly.
00:04:15.340 Hence, Paul, who was Peter's subject, rebuked him in public on the account of the imminent
00:04:20.900 danger of scandal concerning the faith.
00:04:24.460 As the gloss of St. Augustine says on Galatians 2.11,
00:04:28.200 Peter gave an example to his superiors that if at any time they should happen to stray from
00:04:33.740 the straight path, they should not disdain to be reproved by their subjects.
00:04:38.540 Another important point to be made is that which was given to me by a good and holy bishop,
00:04:44.680 His Excellency Athanasius Schneider of Astana in Kazakhstan.
00:04:48.700 He teaches that the true friends of the Pope are those cardinals, bishops, and laymen
00:04:53.160 who express their public concern about these very important issues,
00:04:57.100 about the state of confusion in the Church.
00:04:59.280 Bishop Schneider said that those who perform adulation of the Pope and deny the evidence
00:05:04.660 that ambiguity in the Pope's teaching is causing confusion are not helping the Pope nor themselves
00:05:10.100 when they will face their final judgment.
00:05:13.560 Bishop Schneider quoted Melchior Cano, a famous Dominican bishop and theologian of the Council
00:05:18.880 of Trent.
00:05:19.980 He said, and I quote,
00:05:21.280 For us at LifeSite News, we come at this from a perspective we've taken on as a motto,
00:05:48.640 caritas in veritate, love and truth.
00:05:52.560 We recognize that sometimes it's difficult to speak the truth, but out of love and sincere
00:05:59.460 wish for the good of others, we must speak the truth even when it's unpopular.
00:06:04.580 So too with Pope Francis, we love him and pray for him on a daily basis, both individually
00:06:09.420 and as a staff on our morning prayer call.
00:06:12.120 And we can't do as some have suggested and just keep our heads down and wait it out,
00:06:17.860 because souls are at stake.
00:06:20.360 And even more personally, our own children are being confused.
00:06:23.700 The truth of Christ means everything to us.
00:06:27.180 He is the only way to eternal life.
00:06:29.720 And outside of him, there is only eternal hell.
00:06:33.540 And that's why we do what we do at LifeSite News.
00:06:36.700 There is no hatred or animosity here towards the Pope.
00:06:40.200 There is a loving concern and willingness to confront even the Pope when it comes to errors
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00:06:47.740 We try our best to do so with respect and charity, but also with clarity.
00:06:53.820 For LifeSite News, I'm John Henry Weston, and may God bless you.
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